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Direct Answer Modern examples (by Bercot’s logic) are situations where Christians celebrate correct explanations of grace and faith, or pride in doctrinal clarity, while their lives lack mercy, obedience, and the visible “kingdom fruit” Jesus describes; a group can tell it’s happening when knowledge and talk increase but practical fruit does not.

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• He says Luther emphasized “we can do nothing without him” but “ignored what Jesus said about producing fruit.”
• He states the principle: “Luther confused the means with the end. The end is fruit. The means is the power that comes from an abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.”
• He repeats: “Knowledge is not fruit,” and “understanding how the vine works does not in itself produce fruit.”
• The mower illustration portrays people who explain power but don’t mow: lots of teaching and spreading “good news,” but no actual action.
• He says what matters is “whether or not we actually produce fruit, not whether we can correctly explain how the whole process works.”
• He points to theologians who redirect Judgment Day toward “right theological answers” rather than “kingdom fruit.”